The lives and memorable actions of many illustrious persons of the Eastern nations, such as khalifas, sultans, wazirs, ... who have distinguish'd themselves, ... Extracted from the most authentick Oriental chronologers and historians. Never before Englished.
Morgan, J.,active 1739.
Sale, George,1697?-1736.
London : printed for J. Wilcox,
1739.
Another issue lacks the advertisement leaf but has a dedication, signed: J. Morgan, which states that though 'The bookseller who purchased these loose papers [presumably Wilcox], fancies he has good grounds to believe they appertained to the late ingenious Mr. George Sale, .. yet not a syllable of this was his writing'.
Morgan claims responsibility for 'in all about a fourth of the whole'.
This issue lacks a dedication and has an initial advertisement leaf which states that 'These short memorials .. was [sic] design'd, and begun to be translated into English, by the late ingenious Mr. George Sale'.
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